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KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Millions suffered at the hands of the KGB. Mass executions, secret wars and coup d'états. But today, the security network is arguably stronger than ever.

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For the past century, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

For the past century,

For the past century, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

For the past century,

For the past century, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

For the past century,

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent,

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent.

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They were used by the Soviet state to crush dissent.

But while many things may have changed in today's Russia, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

But while many things may have changed in today's...

But while many things may have changed in today's Russia, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

But while many things may have changed in today's...

But while many things may have changed in today's Russia, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

But while many things may have changed in today's...

And the reason behind that is the rise - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

And the reason behind that is the rise

I know the KGB better than anyone else, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

I know the KGB better than anyone else,

I know the KGB better than anyone else - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

I know the KGB better than anyone else

I know the KGB better than anyone else, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

I know the KGB better than anyone else,

(suspenseful music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(suspenseful music)

(soft music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

This is the story of the KGB, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

This is the story of the KGB,

(eerie music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(people clapping) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(people clapping)

(audience laughs) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(audience laughs)

My colleagues and I saw - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

My colleagues and I saw

We saw work taking place on case files, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

We saw work taking place on case files,

(audience laughs) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(audience laughs)

The jokes compiled from the archives, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The jokes compiled from the archives,

The chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov,

(crowd laughing and clapping) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(crowd laughing and clapping)

Misha Melnichenko has unearthed - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Misha Melnichenko has unearthed

One day, Stalin lost his pipe - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

One day, Stalin lost his pipe

A bit later, he calls Beria and says, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

A bit later, he calls Beria and says,

(speaking in foreign language) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(speaking in foreign language)

Citizens of Moscow knew nothing of all this - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Citizens of Moscow knew nothing of all this

(speaking foreign language). - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(speaking foreign language).

Continue the investigation." - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Continue the investigation."

(orchestral music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(orchestral music)

The announcement didn't reveal - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The announcement didn't reveal

Workers were shown striving together for common good. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Workers were shown striving together for common good.

(swift orchestral music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(swift orchestral music)

This recently opened KGB archive in Kiev - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

This recently opened KGB archive in Kiev

He managed to record a brief message to the Soviet people - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

He managed to record a brief message to the Soviet people

In the 1920s and '30s, this view of a utopian society - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

In the 1920s and '30s, this view of a utopian society

It records the fate of hundreds of thousands - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

It records the fate of hundreds of thousands

KGB hardliners believed that Gorbachev - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

KGB hardliners believed that Gorbachev

Some were even willing to collaborate with the Soviets - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Some were even willing to collaborate with the Soviets

Those who suffered at the hands of the KGB, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Those who suffered at the hands of the KGB,

(speaking in foreign language) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(speaking in foreign language)

With Perestroika, which was introduced - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

With Perestroika, which was introduced

(soft music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They used a variety of inducements, not just money. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They used a variety of inducements, not just money.

You could also convince communists - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

You could also convince communists

Indeed, that's one of the reasons why the head of the KGB - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Indeed, that's one of the reasons why the head of the...

Prisoners called this playing the piano. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Prisoners called this playing the piano.

(pleasant orchestral music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(pleasant orchestral music)

(man speaks Russian) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(man speaks Russian)

As tanks closed in around the White House, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

As tanks closed in around the White House,

Nowhere would prove more important - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Nowhere would prove more important

In the early morning, I rushed to the White House. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

In the early morning, I rushed to the White House.

They pushed guns through our cell windows - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They pushed guns through our cell windows

When the KGB looked at Cambridge, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

When the KGB looked at Cambridge,

(soft music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

It was a very small establishment, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

It was a very small establishment,

It was here, amongst what largely represented - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

It was here, amongst what largely represented

Also inside these boxes, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Also inside these boxes,

Crowd's put their bodies in the way of tanks and trucks, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Crowd's put their bodies in the way of tanks and...

It's this small group of people - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

It's this small group of people

Tank crews were reluctant to hurt the protestors. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Tank crews were reluctant to hurt the protestors.

We truly believed - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

We truly believed

They had to choose, fire on your own people or switch sides. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They had to choose, fire on your own people or switch sides.

Many of them had all kinds of vices, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Many of them had all kinds of vices,

(soft music) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Most of them were very eager as well, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Most of them were very eager as well,

They don't see at this moment in time, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They don't see at this moment in time,

The following morning, when Boris Yeltsin - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The following morning, when Boris Yeltsin

They see themselves as helping out a plucky, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They see themselves as helping out a plucky,

A simple handshake effectively determined the coup was over. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

A simple handshake effectively determined the coup was over.

From 1940, these five Cambridge spies - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

From 1940, these five Cambridge spies

(Russian National Anthem) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(Russian National Anthem)

President Gorbachev returned to Moscow, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

President Gorbachev returned to Moscow,

Russia, the largest country on earth. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Russia, the largest country on earth.

Misunderstood by many and feared by even more. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Misunderstood by many and feared by even more.

(Russian National Anthem) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

(Russian National Anthem)

The leaders of the KGB didn't understand - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The leaders of the KGB didn't understand

So, when America detonated the world's first atomic bomb, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

So, when America detonated the world's first atomic...

They didn't understand that most KGB officers - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They didn't understand that most KGB officers

KGB spies were already supplying intelligence, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

KGB spies were already supplying intelligence,

Russia's people have been encouraged - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Russia's people have been encouraged

The cadre of coup leaders became known - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The cadre of coup leaders became known

There was a decision by Stalin to to concentrate - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

There was a decision by Stalin to to concentrate

I want to be a citizen of the world - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

I want to be a citizen of the world

They were all arrested except Boris Pugo, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

They were all arrested except Boris Pugo,

But they tell me that this is an enemy, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

But they tell me that this is an enemy,

The putsch in 1991 failed because the people preparing it - KGB - The Sword and the Shield

The putsch in 1991 failed because the people preparing it

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Millions suffered at the hands of the KGB. Mass executions, secret wars and coup d'états. But today, the security network is arguably stronger than ever.

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